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JavaScript Arduino Programming

http://weblog.bocoup.com/javascript-arduino-programming-with-nodejs/

CodeAcademy.com

Probably the best way to learn to code for free online.

http://www.codecademy.com

Fixie.js

JS Tool for adding filler content during page designing.

http://fixiejs.com

How to Build a Real-Time Commenting System

With Websockets, PHP and JavaScript

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/05/09/building-real-time-commenting-system/

May 8

URI Parsing With JavaScript

https://gist.github.com/2428561

May 8

JavaScript Styleguides and Beautifiers

Great article on modern JS best practices and tools to help you.

http://addyosmani.com/blog/javascript-style-guides-and-beautifiers/

May 2

jQuery Plugin with Grunt and Qunit

A nice walkthrough of how to use Grunt and QUnit.

http://javascriptplayground.com/blog/2012/04/a-jquery-plugin-with-grunt-qunit

May 2

Conditionally Load Content Trick

Nice little trick from Jeremy Keith on using JS to conditionally load content.

http://adactio.com/journal/5429/

Chrome Dev Tools Breakpoints Tutorial

https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/scripts-breakpoints

Meteor: Real-time JavaScript Framework

This feels to me a lot like how Rails felt back in 2005. A fundamental leap forward and an understanding of where web technology is going. I haven’t felt that way about Node.js or even its higher-level frameworks like Express or Batman. This feels like “The One”, even though I’ve been absorbing the docs and screencasts only for the last 20 minutes.” - highest rated comment from Hacker News

http://www.meteor.com

PubSub

PubSub (or pub/sub) is a popular and very useful design pattern in JavaScript. Here’s a couple simple examples:
http://javascriptplayground.com/blog/2012/04/a-jquery-pub-sub-implementation

A really really tiny implementation of PubSub:
https://gist.github.com/661855

7 Principles of Security
Crockford outlines the basic principles of designing secure software, with a focus on web applications.

What Is The Meaning of This?

The fat arrow is coming to JavaScript. Crockford posts about the new way to write functions in the next version of JS.

http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/03/30/what-is-the-meaning-of-this

Thinking Asynce

When loading JavaScript from a third party, do it asynchronously.

http://css-tricks.com/thinking-async/

Apr 4

No More Powerpoint, I Have Impress.js

Using the Impress.js presentation framework requires front end coding knowledge, but you can make some really unique presentations with it (and they even included my ‘What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?’ deck in there). Note: requires Chrome, Safari or Firefox 10.

http://www.paulund.co.uk/no-more-powerpoint-i-have-impress-js